Hip Hop Culture & A Woman's Worth

April 03, 2017 by Jaimie Crumley in Respectability Politics

In this first part of my respectability series, I will talk about the power of language and the type of words I refuse to reclaim or accept. As a black woman, I fail to understand why I must change fundamental parts of who I am to conform to society while society makes no attempts to receive me.

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March 13, 2017 by Jaimie Crumley in She Did That, Series

She could not understand why women could not preach when Jesus died for both women and men. She also advanced a rigorous argument about women’s sources of knowledge. She argued that if unlearned fisherman could preach, why not unlearned women?